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The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.

Robert M. Pirsig

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Robert M. Pirsig
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 6
Died: 2017
Died: April 24
Autobiographer
Novelist
Philosopher
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Robert Maynard Pirsig
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To an experienced Zen Buddhist, asking if one believes in Zen or one believes in the Buddha, sounds a little ludicrous, like asking if one believes in air or water. Similarly Quality is not something you believe in, Quality is something you experience.
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Good is a noun rather than an adjective.
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Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.
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What's new? is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow.
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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
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Education should not be fun. You are being brought up into society and society has a way of doing things. It may not be pleasant but sooner or later you are going to have to do it anyway.
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The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules.
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It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
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The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.
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The more you read, the more you calm down.
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Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?
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Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships.
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Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.
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There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.
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I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life otherwise forget it.
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No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow.
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There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
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Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.
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Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life.
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It's paradoxical that where people are the most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities in the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest... The explanation, I suppose, is that the physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance...
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